Made in Hollywood

In the history of North America, many events have left a heavy mark, and the Duke and Batman series will also do the same, but I am afraid that no one can tell whether the final defined image is positive or negative, and This great society-wide debate about movies and violence will not come to a real conclusion.

Current events create public opinion, and public opinion affects the direction of current events.

Perhaps when Duke is completely old, it will be very interesting to look back at the big debate about movies that broke out in the media. As a director, no matter whether he is passive or active, he is destined to be involved in this kind of incident. In the development process of the whole United States, it left a strong mark.

The debate has gone beyond The Dark Knight Rises to involve the whole of Hollywood, and moralists, pushed out by certain cliques, also include the promoters in their attacks.

In the eyes of these moralists, the entire movie industry is guilty, and they listed the seven deadly sins of Hollywood movies in the media!

A Deadly Sin in Movies: Initiating a Villain Cult.

Hollywood is a film industry system that provides a spectacle experience, not only in visual effects, but also in the spectacle of stories and characters. In order to achieve a reasonable and unimaginable plot and an extreme outbreak of the opposition between good and evil, Hollywood screenwriters and directors are struggling. Do your best.

The audience needs stimulation and entertainment. Hollywood has shaped the villain from an early murderer to a mid-term mental patient; from the vigilante in Seven Deadly Sins to a speculative thought criminal like a clown. And in the villain In this evolution process, the positive roles have not changed much, which has caused the villains to gradually take the initiative in terms of drama influence.

Whether it's Michael Peterson in the movie, or Charles Manson on the screen. They are all characters who have been pushed to the altar in a context where there is no hero, or the hero has been reduced to a political propaganda tool. More exaggerated movies magnify this mythology, and make evil stained with apocalyptic behavior. Whether it is pure tyranny, or simple revenge. Or a warning to wake up the world, or even a clown-like speculation, It makes people go from being curious to liking, from admiring to adoring, and finally accidentally turning into imitation.”

The Second Deadly Sin of Cinema: The spectacle of violence.

Movie plots emphasize contradictions, conflicts, and drama, so violence has become an indispensable element in Hollywood commercial films. On the one hand, the depiction and display of violence has increased the public's appetite. Hollywood can only continue to increase the weight of violent crimes On the other hand, the violence in life is constantly stimulating Hollywood. Charles Manson's disciples frantically killed Polanski's wife, and under Duke Rosenberg's hands, the The most popular and charismatic Demon King Manson has been integrated into the clown's character and habitual actions. And the clown who has been upgraded on the screen has in turn re-guided today's youth, making him make more outrageous, An even more heinous move.

The violence on the screen itself is only a kind of narrative element. When the lights of the theater are turned on and the subtitles come out, the violence should have ended, but the mass media has the effect of amplifying and exaggerating, and it should not spread to the violence in life. Going beyond the norm, this kind of display that obscures the whole picture. It will inevitably lead to abuse of violence.

Oliver Stone completes his satire of media violence with 'Natural Born Killers', but it's even more ironic that the film invokes the famous Columbine High School massacre; Martin Scorsese's 'Taxi Driver completed the writing of the trauma and dramatic violence of the Vietnam War, but it also led to John Hinckley's fascination with Jodie Foster and the assassination of President Reagan.

The Three Deadly Sins of Movies: Advocating Violence to Control Violence.

Using violence to control violence. Or using violence to counter violence are common tactics used by directors. In those films, in the face of violence that cannot be sanctioned by the law, using violence to counter violence is the only option. And the more subtle countering violence with violence Violence is the ultimate narrative method for directors to hold the law against the law.

It's just the deep meaning, which may not be understood by everyone. Therefore, many movie fans will love the thoughtful John Dewey in The Seven Deadly Sins, appreciate the unpredictable Professor Hannibal in The Silence of the Lambs, and admire him Mr. Smith in The Matrix will be obsessed with the high-pressure killer in No Country for Old Men, and he will fall in love with the clown in The Dark Knight. It is very satisfying to use violence to control violence, but imitating violence without restraint can only make violence It becomes a carrier that harms society and human beings. When violence steps off the screen and gets rid of the halo of the dream machine, what we see is only tragedy.

The Four Deadly Sins of Movies: The Mass Crowd Effect

The public onlookers and swarms of discussions magnify the social significance of violent incidents infinitely. It is understandable for the media to dig out the sociality behind the characters, but under the entertainment narrative, this kind of digging has become another meaning The god-making movement and curiosity-seeking onlookers on the Internet.

Remember the criminals' demands on the president in Black Mirror? He kidnapped the British princess in order to threaten the world to broadcast the whole process of the president having sex with a pig, and his extraordinary crimes intertwined with the curious and indifferent crowd watching A performance art, this absurd story shows to a large extent: the responsibility borne by all media including movies today has fueled the flames and brought an excessively intense public effect, which has given birth to a certain sense of sensationalism and attention-seeking malicious crime.”

Single and independent films have no responsibility, but under the catalysis of mass media and social problems, films—or the texts in films, inevitably become a key link in tragedies...

These people have listed seven deadly sins for Hollywood movies in total. This approach will undoubtedly wipe out Hollywood. To some extent, this is also a good thing for Duke and The Dark Knight Rises. together, to take a common stand against this view, thereby reducing the pressure to attack The Dark Knight Rises directly.

When someone wants to touch the overall interests of Hollywood, the major Hollywood groups will naturally form an interest alliance.

They even pulled out Duke's words as a sharp weapon to refute. It seems that the siege of The Dark Knight Rises some time ago has nothing to do with them.

Movies don't kill people. We love movies. We love the world they create. Movies give people feelings in their own unique way. As long as we stand together against those stupid and extreme remarks, violence will not destroy people's love and faith, destroy No movies and art.

These are the words that Duke recently accepted in an interview, which was placed in a prominent position by many media.

According to these words of Duke, the media with close ties to Hollywood has launched a continuous and powerful refutation of the statement of the film's guilt.

First of all, movies don't kill people. Of course, the history of human violence is far earlier than the history of movies. Movies occupy a difficult and ambiguous position in this massacre. Asking movies to pay for crimes is a bit like a scapegoat.

In fact, violence in movies is rarely considered to directly affect people. Richard Walter once said that when a violent movie is released, there is less violence in society. What is a movie theater? ?The movie theater is the stadium of emotions. In the stadium, we can have some physical conflicts. In the movie theater, we can also experience spiritual conflicts. What’s the problem?”

Secondly, violence comes from people's hearts. It would be too exaggerated to say that The Dark Knight Rises and the Joker caused the tragedy. The theme of The Dark Knight is to blame violence, and James Holmes peeped from the movie What is more important is crime and killing. Different people’s hearts extract different things from movies, and individual people, in step-by-step choices, send themselves to the seat of criminals.”

Movies only present or artistically process the social conditions that exist in reality. Even if they are as clean as virgins and resolutely reject all scenes of violence, obscenity, and crime, people can still learn about violence and crime from various angles. In reality, people really The sources of violence in the mind come from imbalances in life, stress and educational issues.

In the end, the tragedy reflects the problems of an entire era.

After the tragedy, Duke Rosenberg officially announced his farewell to Batman, and issued a passionate declaration of 'we love movies, we love the world it creates, and movies give people feelings in their unique way', which is The innocence of this director and his film shows in disguise: this clown-like reality tragedy is caused by this era.

In Duke Rosenberg's Batman movies, the symbols of criminals always have a sense of anti-civilization and anti-system madness, as well as a sense of extremes that don't care about themselves and have no appeal. After the clown burns the city, he puts his head Laughing wildly out of the car window, Bane destroys the entire football field, raises the flag and throws away the broken Batman mask. This is no longer a country, army or political war, but an individual, strong, primitive, resistance On the one hand, he questioned order and rulers, and on the other hand, he was also a spokesperson for fear and anxiety.”

James Holmes' original intention is unknown, but the 25-year-old is still spitting at the prison guards, pretending to be crazy and asking about the ending of The Dark Knight Rises, he is dismissive of his crimes and life , His criminal temperament belongs to this era, and film and culture are the refraction of notoriety. While Warner is considering cutting the violent scenes in the subsequent film, Obama and the US government are also busy discussing the issue of gun laws. The screen pays, reviews and is responsible, every reality, legal system, education, injustice, and every public in this world and this era are closely related to and inseparable from the tragedy.

In the face of doubts from the society, Hollywood is not only refuting, but also has another attitude, which is to accept it with an open mind and never change it.

In other words, what kind of genre film can reflect the greatest market value, what kind of film Hollywood will make, maybe at this time period, Hollywood will impose some restrictions on the content of the production, but from the general trend In other words, the goal will still be to maximize profits. (to be continued ~^~)

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